Fastening for hoops and crosspieces in silos and the like.



B. F. SGHLICHTER.

FASTENING FOR HOOPS AND GRCSSPIEGES IN SILGS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.15, 1911.

1,060,367, Patented Apr.29, 1913.

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E. F. SOHLICHTER.

FASTENING FOR HOOPS AND OROSSPIEGBS IN SILOS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, 1911.

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ENOS F. SCI-ILICHTEB, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FASTENING FOR- I-IOOPS AND CROSSPIECES IN SILOS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed March 15, v1911.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ENOS F. Sonmorrrnn, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Fastening for'Hoops and Grosspieces in Silos and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

It is frequently desirable in a silo to have larger openings for filling the silo or removing the ensilage from the same than afforded between two tiebars connecting the jambs or door frames, but such tie-bars are usually permanently secured in the jambs or door frames and cannot be removed. For the purpose of providing for such enlargement, my invention consists of improved means for removably securing the ends of the tie-bars to the jambs of the doorway.

It further consists of an improved fastening device for the hoops and tie-bars to the jambs of a silo.

It further consists which the tie-bars may and detached.

It further consists of improved means for securing the ends of the tie-bars in the fastenings.

It further consists of of construction, all as will be fully set forth.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I have shown in the accompanying drawing one form thereof which is at present preferred by me, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents an elevation of a portion of a silo, illustrating the jambs, the tiebars and the fastenings. Fig. 2 represents a face view of my improved fastening and one end of the tie-bar. Fig. 3 represents an edge-view of said parts. Fig. 4 represents a perspective detail view of the keeper for the tie-bars. Fig. 5 represents a face-view of the fastening provided with another form of locking device. Fig. 6 represents an edgeview of said parts with the fastening nut removed.

of such a fastening in be easily attached other novel features hereinafter Specification of Letters Patent.

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Referring to the drawings, the reference numerals 1 indicate portions of the staves of the silo tank, adjacent the upright jambs or door frames, 2, between which the doors, of the usual or any approved construction. My new lugs for tie-bars and hoops which are secured at registering points upon the faces of the jambs, are formed of a base plate or support 4t having transverse, open-sided sockets or sleeves, 5, and transverse, closed sockets or sleeves, 16, an opening of each of which latter, as will be seen from Fig. 3, is laterally enlarged at the end away from the silo opening, and as this socket receives an end of a hoop 6 of the tank, a certain amount of play between the socket and the hoop is provided which accomplishes the purpose of allowing for the variations in diameters of silos, which prevents twisting the door jambs out of position. It will be noted that the hoops are secured in place by means of nuts 7, and it will be understood that the two sockets are suitably positioned with respect to each other. The sleeves 5 have their upper sides open, as at 8, so as to form troughs, U- shaped in cross-section, for the reception of the screw-threaded ends of tie-bars 19. Nuts, 9 and 10, fit upon the threaded ends of the tie-bars,one set, 9, bearing against the inner ends of the sleeves and the other set, 10, bearing against the outer ends of the sleeves. Split rings, 11, having their ends slightly sprung, are inter-posed upon the cross-bar between the nuts 10 and the outer ends of the sleeves. 'An ear, 12, projects from the periphery of each split ring and has a laterally projecting stud, 13, near its end. The under side of the outer end of the open sleeve has a notch, 14:, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and in section in Fig. 2, where a part of the sleeve is illustrated as broken away and removed, and said notch is engaged by the stud upon the split ring and held in place by the outer nut 10, so that the end of the tie-bar is retained in the open-sided sleeve and said rings serve as keepers for the ends of the tie-bars.

When it is desired to remove a tie-bar, the nuts upon both ends of the open-sided sleeves are loosened, and the outer nuts are so far unscrewed that the split rings may be slid out far enough to withdraw their studs from the notches,'when the tie-bar may be lifted out of the open-sided sleeves and removed, thus affording a greater opening whenthe doors are removed and easier access into the silo.

In Figs. 5 and 6 is illustrated another means for retaining the tie-bar in the opensided sleeve, in the form of a curved latchbar or keeper, 15, pivoted at its upper end upon the base-plate and projecting outward to have its free end enter the slot in the upper side of the sleeve and bear against the tie-bar. When it is desired to remove the bar, the latch is tilted to one side and the bar may be lifted out of the sleeve. The bar may be fastened by means of a nut, 17, upon its pivot-bolt, 18.

In both forms, the door-opening of the silo is bridged by tie-bars which form substantially continuations of the hoops, and in both forms, one or more tie-bars may be removed to admit of a larger unobstructed opening being had than in the silo where a rigid cross-bar is found for each or every other door-section, but always at such distance from each other that the tie-bars will serve as rungs of a ladder up the side of the silo.

The split ring having its ends out of register or somewhat sprung, may serve as a nutlock preventing rotation of the outer nuts upon the ends of the tie-bars under the strain of the swelling silo. I

By having the two sockets or sleeves for the hoop and for the tie-bar upon the same base-plate, the strain upon the hoops will have no tendency to displace the jambs, as the strain will be even all around as upon a continuous hoop.

It is evident that this fastening, although principally intended for silos, may be employed in other closures where a doorway is spanned by tie-bars which it is desirable should be removable.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a novel and useful construction which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while have in the present instance shown and described the preferred embodiment thereof which has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that the same is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fastening for tie-bars and hoops for silos, a support having a transverse sleeve or socket formed with an open upper side, a tie-bar having a portion thereof adapted to be seated in said open sided socket, a keeper engaging the tie bar, and having means for engaging a suitable part of said support, and means locking said bar in position and locking said keeper between it and the socket, and thereby holding said keeper in engagement with said support.

2. In a fastening for tie-bars and hoops for silos, a support having a transverse sleeve or socket formed with an open upper side, a tie-bar having a portion thereof adapted to be seated in said open sided socket and provided with a threaded end, a keeper formed of a ring encircling the tie-bar and having means for engaging a suitable part of said support, and a nut locking the bar in position and clamping said keeper between it and the end of the socket and holding the said keeper in engagement with said support.

3. In a fastening for a tie-bar and a hoop for silos, a lug having a transverse sleeve or socket formed with an open upper side and a notch in the end of its under side, a tiebar having its screw-threaded end resting in said open-sided sleeve or socket, a keeper consisting of a ring encircling the tie-bar and an ear having a stud engaging the notch, and nuts upon the bar and respectively bearing against the end of the sleeve and against the keeper to clamp the latter against the other end of the sleeve.

ENOS F. SOHLIOHTER.

Witnesses WM. CANER VVIEDERSEIM,

C. D. MOVAY.

M Gop'ies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0." 

